Advanced Masturbation Techniques By Cory Silverberg, About.com Guide Updated January 22, 2010

What defines advanced masturbation, as opposed to beginner masturbation? Because masturbation is all about pleasing yourself, when it comes to evaluating what makes for great masturbation technique you are both the judge and jury.

But hundreds of years of masturbation myths have left many at a loss for ways to spice up their masturbation routine. If you've already covered the basics of masturbation techniques for men and masturbation techniques for women, but feel like you're in a self-love rut, consider these advanced masturbation techniques.
Use Sex Toys for Stimulation and Fantasy
More and more people are getting comfortable introducing sex toys into their sexual routine. And while sex toys aren’t required for great sex, they can help take masturbation to a new level in at least two ways.
More:Sex toys can enhance masturbation fantasy technique.
Voyeur Self
When you masturbate are your eyes usually closed? Even if you’re someone who likes to read erotic fiction, what adult films, or look at magazines or comics, when you’re nearest to the point of release or orgasm, where are you looking? There’s no research to guide us here, but there are many who don’t take full advantage of the emotional, psychological, and even spiritual possibilities of masturbation.
More: Watch your self during masturbation to learn more about response and pleasure.
Talk Dirty
Carol Queen, author of the highly recommended Exhibitionism for the Shy suggests that the best way to get comfortable with talking dirty is to do it when you masturbate. It can also be an amazing way of spicing up your masturbation, and loosening you up in general.
More:Explore role play and masturbation fantasy through sexy self talk.
Exploring Taboo Fantasy
The fact that masturbation is private and that you are the only person you need to consider when masturbating, means it can be an excellent place to explore the limits of your sexual desires. We live in a culture with strong sexual taboos, which we learn almost invisibly from an early age. While many would never want to have sex that might fall into a cultural taboo category, most of us imagine it at times.
More: Using masturbation to explore taboo sexual fantasies.
Trying New Masturbation Sex Positions
Betty Dodson, considered by many to be the Grandmother of Masturbation, often writes about the way we hold our bodies when we masturbate. Many of us keep very stiff (no pun intended) and still when we masturbate, and only relax once we have climaxed. In her books and videos, Dodson highlights the importance of moving while you masturbate.
More: Getting creative with masturbation sex positions.
Masturbation Techniques

* Male Masturbation How To
* Female Masturbation How To
* Mutual Masturbation How To

Masturbation Tips

* Masturbation Sex Positions
* Books on Masturbation
* Switch It Up With Yourself

Masturbation Trivia

* Take Our Masturbation Quiz
* Masturbation in the Movies
* A History of Masturbation